S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.”
Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17
“Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.”
Source: Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays
“Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.”
“Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.”
“Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.”
“Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.”
“Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the '80s. I don't remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It's THAT mean.”
“Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.”
“Sexiest mind game ever played - Chess.”
“Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.”
“Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.”
“Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.”
“Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.”
“Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.”
“Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.”
“Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.”
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”
“Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat.”
“Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.”
“Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.”
“Sexism, and its expressions, are multi-layered and complex. Often, it comes in gender-neutral language, decorated with gendered accents. It comes in the form of pink walls for young girls and blue for young boys. Barbie dolls and G.I. Joe’s. Skirts and dresses and Bermuda shorts. Fairy tales that shamelessly teach that women need a Prince Charming and superheroes who are almost always men. That boys don’t cry. It comes in the form of ‘protective’ mothers and fathers who don’t allow their daughters to date, while the son has many girlfriends. Or in the idea that while a woman may be doing well for herself, she must marry a man who does better than her or marry at all! And the over-glorification of motherhood that carefully cloaks the sacrifices a woman makes to raise a child and systematically alienates the man — the father. There is sexism everywhere if you stop and pay attention.”
Source: Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India
“Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.”
“Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.”
“Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.”
Source: Burning questions: a novel
“Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.”
“Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.”
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
“Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing."”
“Sexism is alive and well in true-crime coverage, because Bronwyn and I aren't nearly as popular with the general public as Cooper and Nate”
Source: One of Us Is Lying
“Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.”
“Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.”
“Sexism is not confined by border, race, class, sexuality or gender and, to my mind (and Margo Kingston's in Chapter 6), it is inextricably bound up with a mindset of entitlement that also afflicts our relationship with the planet.”
Source: Fury
“Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.”
“Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers”
Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches
“Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew”
“Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.”
“Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.”
“Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.”
“Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.”
“Sexists refer to every female political opinion as "hysterical," just like they refer to every word a woman says when she opens her mouth as "shouting," and for the same reasons — not because the women are actually being loud or unreasonable, but because women are not supposed to have opinions or voices at all.”
“Sexless stories about human relationships are dishonest. How did anyone write about love, life, or death, and manage to avoid it so neatly? It was a hoax, and thankfully behind us.”
Source: The Best of Best American Erotica 2008
“Sexo casual. Esse namorado dela talvez seja casual. Queria tanto ser casual, deve ser uma delícia ser casual, uma suave passagem de um beija-flor na janela, jamais, nada é casual depois que se é atravessado pela tragédia, outra sintonia, mais melancólica, tudo são fardos, a água da casa dos homens casuais tem outro gosto, os detalhes dos apartamentos mal decorados objetos encaixotados fórmicas descoloridas compensados óbvios lençóis com cheiro de gente, como se pode ser casual reparando na desconcertante neutralidade dos móveis triviais, diferentes dos móveis que tinham uma pessoa deitada por cima e de repente deixaram de ter, diferentes dos móveis em cima dos quais se jantava contando sobre tentáculos exaustos do polvo gigante do Pacífico e de repente não se janta, os móveis dos homens casuais às vezes baratos às vezes muito caros mas todos despojados da contração de uma dor tão estrutural e acachapante, as fibras banais dos móveis deles, as palavras que os homens casuais dizem e que não se encaixam com o que eu aprendi serem as palavras certas de um homem, as melhores para ouvir, nas casas deles eu caminho densa pelos pisos sintéticos laminados que logo se incomodam com meu peso imenso massacrando o acabamento, a água do meu banho que engrossa em mim e atola no ralo, saio alagando os banheiros, vazando pela sala, cachoeira nas varandas, nada me é casual.”
Source: Não fossem as sílabas do sábado
“Sexo com gente não equivalente constitui zoofilia.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Sexton, in a moment of true comradeship, smiled supportively at Plath across the table and the class continued.”
Source: Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton
“Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.”
“Sextus had little Aramaic, but he could hear the word 'Gehenna', the name of the refuse pit where the evil dead would be buried, being repeated over and over again.”
Source: The Flame and The Wind
“Sexu' cu un Scorpion e o experienta la un alt nivel. O experienta tantrica. In cazu’ de fata, o combinatie intre Tao si Teo.”
Source: Viata mea
“Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. “You’re not worthy” is one of them.”
“Sexual abuse is also a secret crime, one that usually has no witness. Shame and secrecy keep a child from talking to siblings about the abuse, even if all the children in a family are being sexually assaulted. In contrast, if a child is physically or emotionally abused, the abuse is likely to occur in front of the other children in the family, at least some of the time. The physical and emotional abuse becomes part of the family's explicit history. Sexual abuse does not.”
Source: Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
“Sexual abuse is an experience, not a definition to be encased in; you are far greater
than any experience suffered through the insidiousness of indifference in the form of
pedophilia. Reaching out for help is not a weakness, it is strength and courage in action.
Recovery is not easy nor is it a quick process however, all souls are worth the effort
required. Who you have come to believe you are can be very divergent from who your
naturally are.”
Source: Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of abuse hidden behind closed doors